Tommy Battle on Health Care

Co-Leader of free programs educating the public on obesity

Led by Mayor Tommy Battle and the City's Parks & Recreation Department, Healthy Huntsville is sponsored by the following non-profit organizations: City of Huntsville, Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville City Schools, HudsonAlpha, and the Huntsville-Madison
County Health Dept. These organizations are working with the community to offer FREE programs to help educate our citizens on wellness and good physical health.˙Our goal is to: "Reduce obesity by promoting healthy eating and active lifestyles."˙

Source: Huntsville AL Mayoral website HuntsvilleAL.gov
, Mar 3, 2018

Hands tied on Medicaid abuse as it's a federally run program

YH: Then we've got another story coming out of Florida, which is just one state over, of millions and millions of dollars being paid out in Medicaid fraud to people who had fraud allegations against them.

TB: You know, fraud abuse is something that we all need to jump on but it's very tough to address situations where most of the work that they're doing and they're talking about doing is federal programs being administered federally.